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EMMATH , . IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND WEATHER NEWS ; PICTURES! Associated Press TtltmiU. MEA Telepho. to and live local newsplcture and en graving stall provide News and Harald laadara with a comprehensive photograph la service. . Fate High (It Low 101 Midnight 17 24 boon to I p. m. , , 1) M M 8.28 to data Normal prad piuUon Last year to data .12.4 Vol. 18, No. 91 Price F Ive Centa TWO SECTIONS KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1941 (Every Morning Except Monday); THE News In TKe ; Day's fNews ' - Br rriAitai jenkikb TODAY (Thursday): 1 Oerman troopa ara rolling down through Bulgaria to the Greek border. German planet, with tha came destination, are darkening the Bulgarian skies. 4 Greece la reported to be mass ing 80,000 troops In the mountain pauea north of Salonlkl. fURREY pushes her defense preparation! and her government-controlled newspapers are aaylng: "Unless Huwia has de cided to commit suicide, the will not let Germany come near her life-giving arteries. The Dard anelles ara as Important to Rus sia as to Turkey." BRITISH FOREIGN SECRE TARY EDEN and Sir John Dill, chief of the British Imperial staff, leave Athena, announcing ' that they and the Greek leaders "have reached complete agree ment on all aspects of the crisis." That la obviously Intended to convey the Impression that llrlt aln will back Greece Impressive ly with armed force If Greece electa to fight the Germans. There are rumors of British troops landed at Salonlkl. THERE are rumors that Russia has presented Rumania with a virtual ultimatum demanding naval bases on Rumania's Black Sea coast. Rumania has a million troops facing the Russians along the border. AS to the German troops and planes that are hurrying down to tha border and the Greek troopa that ara hurrying up to tha border, they ara part of a game of bluff that may at any moment blaze Into war. It may be war that neither side wants. You never can-tell about that. TURKEY Is obviously asking Russia for sign. With big Germany pounding her on one' side and big (what ever also she may be aha Is big) Russia pounding her on the other, little Turkey would be ground like the grain between the mortar and the pestle. AS for Britain's rumored In tention to send troops In large numbers to the aid of Greece It sounds good, but If you are a careful student of your maps you will keep your fingers .crossed. . Germany can pour armies down into Greece by land, sub ject only to minor harassment by British planes. Britain must move an army across the Medi terranean from Africa, and main tain long and rather precarious supply lines by water. Someway It doesn't seem to make sense. AS to Stalin, one wonders If he doesn't sometimes regret the a p 1 1 1 1 n g of so many of Russia's best brains by firing squads before blank walls. After all, brains are about all that can help in a national pinch. VEANWHILE Eighteen Hollanders are CONDEMNED TO DEATH In Amsterdam by a German court martial. They were charged , with espionage and sabotage and terrorism against the German army. , German soldiers, It seems, have been pushed into the water and drowned. There is talk of a plot to poison Gorman soldiers with acids. - Don't overlook such things as these among the obstacles Hitler has to face. . WASHINGTON, March 8 (P) The house naval committee to day unanimously approved leg islation authorizing a permanent navy enlisted strength of 232,000 and emergency strength of 300, 000. ; The War 25 Years Ago By The Associated Press March 0, 1916 French drive . Germans from trenches near For est of Thiaville. TURKEY PLANS REJECTION OF GERMAN OFFER Hitler's Note Asking for Separation From Bri tish Implies Warning ANKARA. Friday. March 7 (UP) Turkey will reject within the next three or four days an invitation from Adolf Hitler that a high Turkish statesman be sent to Germany to discuss "closer cooperation" with the axis, auth oritative Turkish sources said last night. President Gen. Itmet Inonu, to whom Hitler sent his message by special airplane courier Tuesday, was - said to be considering whether to make a formal reply to It. If there Is any answer at all. it was said In authoritative quar ters, it will be presented to the German chancellory by the Turkish ambassador In Berlin, H. Huarev Gerede, within three or four days. Hitler s message was said In diplomatic quarters to have made clear his objective of sep arating Turkey from her British ally and to have carried an im plied warning against permitting any British troops to land on Turkish soil. There were assurances from Hitler that, If Turkish neutrality la abided by In this manner, the Turks need have no fear of a nail attack. High Turkish quarters dis missed these assurances as worthless." however, pointing out similar assurances were (Continued on Page Two) Owner of Laddie Gets AnothstPog HOLLYWOOD, March 8 (UP) Private Everett Scott of - the 17th Infantry came to Hollywood today to accept a dof ha .didn't exactly need from Miss Deanna Durbin. ' ... - . Scott said since his other dog. Laddie, died of old age and a broken heart when his master Joined the army, S3 people be sides Miss Durbin wanted to give him dogs. Hedy Lamarr had dog for him. So did Paulette God- dard, and Grade Allen and many another celebrity. ....... A woman in San Francisco already had given him a dog, which he had at Fort Ord In the Monterey peninsula. There was so much business about dogs, and photo taking, and making statements for the press, Scott had little time for soldiering. Good Boldter Then MaJ. Gen. Joseph W. Stlllwell told Scott to go to Hollywood and take Miss Dur bin's dog. Scott was - a good soldier. He obeyed orders. He had no complaints. He arrived In tow of - Lieut Fred ldrldge, a one-time news paper reported now functioning as an army press agent. There was Miss Durbin. There also was the dog, a six-month old airedale, with a pedigree like a king's family tree. Miss Durbin said how-do-you-do. . The dog (Continued on Page Two) Union Says It Keeps Faith In Statement About Strike The strike at the Kalpine Ply wood plant on the Weed high way south continued without new developments Thursday, while the CIO plywood workers union issued a statement aver ring that it "did keep faith" with the company in negotiations pre ceding the cessation work. This statement was made in refutation of statements from a company representative Tues day. The union's statement In the affair follows: "In reply to the loose and mis leading statements as to the strike at Kalpine. "The union did keep faith with the company. 'We have on file a signed statement from the manager that the Kalpine com pany would negotiate and sign an agreement, if the union could prove that they had a majority of the employes in the union before an Impartial referee. We have on file a notarized state ment from this mutually agreed on referee, that the union does have a majority of the employes in the union, On the basis of Mayor Orders Ban oh Dice Game in CHy Mayor John Houston declared Thursday morning that he had given orders to tha) police de partment to stop tha game of 2s" which has started up at various places of business here In the past two weeks. Mayor Houston wld that "2" is a dice game in violation of the city's gambling ordinances. The game Is played, with 10 dice. They ara rolled 10 times by the player, after he calls a point. The number of times the point comes up determines whether he wins or loses. At last week's city council meeting, Police Chief Frank Hamm said that 28 is being played locally, but that pay-offs were "supposed" to be In mer chandise. Mayor Houston, who has asked the police committee of the council to make a report to him" on the gambling ques tion next Monday night, said It had been determined by him that 28 should not proceed. He said a further report on the game question may be expected at the council meeting. STRIKE TRUCE Murray Intercedes Threat of Blackout in Michi gan industrial Area By The Associated Press Intercession by the governor of Michigan resulted today In an announced agreement be tween management and - union representatives to arbitrate dif ferences which had threatened to black out much of the state'! Governor Murray. D: Van Wag oner made the announcement after ho had called in spokesmen for both sides and told them he would "use the full power of his office to see to It that the public service is not disrupted. .. Two million customers of -the Consumers Power company; some 'of them busy:, with defense orders, would be affected by the threatened strike. AFL Structural Iron Workers called off a -strike against the Ingalls Iron Works company at Birmingham, - Ala., when they learned the national defense commission was sending a rep resentative to seek an agree ment. CIO workers at the Edgewater. N. J. plant of the Aluminum Company of America, indicated that a threatened strike call would be held In abeyance until union officials conferred . with the management and until a fed eral conciliator could look the situation over. AUDITORY ODDITY ': BELLEVILLE. 111.. OP) Four boys had their hearing restored instantly when a physician ex amined 93 hard-of-hearing school children. Out of the ear of one boy the doctor took a deeply-imbedded lead. He -removed a piece of lead pencil for another lad and from the ears of the other two wads of cotton. - this notarized statement, the manager started to negotiate a contract. He agreed orally to nearly.' every provision of the contract. He asked for time to study the rest of the contract The union cheerfully and read ily agreed to grant this time that he asked for. "Negotiations broke down. The company went back on Its signed word and instead of negotiating commenced to stall. They did not want to negotiate, they want ed an election, something aside from the point In question. . "We, value the good opinion of the public. It -was not our wish to start hurling accusations at anyone. "The Plywood Box Shook and Door Council IWA has union shop agreements In 14 major op erations. These plants are in need of experienced plywood workers. New plants are going In all over the timbered country. The Ply wood Council can place all of the men it Kalpine that wish It .. (Continued on Psge Two) , . F BEND, 36-23 Bocchi Scores Ten Points in District 3 Meet; Second Game Tonight HIGH SCHOOL SCORES , Roseburg 31. Medford 2(. (Dis trict 4 final). Klamath Falls 38, Bend 23. Sparked by 611m Jim Bocchi's three straight followup counters near the end of the third quar ter, Klamath high's Pelicans suddenly came to life Thursday I night to ton J pletely outclass 1 1 Bend's Lava tiears ana romp off with a 38-23 m victory m me si irerf earn rtt true U District 3 tour- i v The slender 1 J guard then slic- Jlm Bocchi ped in another shortly after the fourth period whistle and the boys took over and began to roll. Bocchi's two free throws hooked to the four baskets gave him ten points and scoring nonors. Nip and Tuck Up until Slim Jim's victory push It was a nip and tuck battle with never more thn- three points separating the pass crazy squads. Score at halftime was 15-14 for the Lava Bears. Bend scored first with two foul shots but the Pelicans knotted It (Continued on Page Twelve) Main Points Of Indo-China RowCleared '' Br The Associated Press : TOKYO, March 8 Agreement on the "principal points" of Japan's- mediation plan to settle the territorial quarrel between rrenen-lndo-Cbma and Thailand was announced officially todav. The remaining points were be ing negotiated. The French ambassador. Char- lea Areene Henry, and Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka con ferred for an hour in late after- noon. . "regarding remaining points of detail, excluding the principal points, which already are agreed to by the French and Thai governments," the Japan ese caDine: board of Information announced. Matsuoka left the French em bassy at 6 p. m. (4 a. m., EST). (Continued on Page Two) British Losses In Africa Low, Report Shows LONDON, March 8 (JP) The government told parliament to day that the British army had lost only 823 men in the entire campaign against Italy in Africa and the middle east ' Capt. H. D. R. Margesson, war secretary, said of "these, 438 were killed and 87 listed as missing. An additional 1249 were wound ed. . Margesson gave the figures in presenting the army budget, the exact figures of which are kept secret.'- . . - The war secretary said the British losses covered the period from Nov. 30 to Feb. 11, includ ing the capitulation of Bengasi on Feb. 6, which he said "com pleted the capture or destruc tion of the whole Italian army in east Libya, estimated to ex ceed 130,000 men." Equipment Better Speaking of the speed of the African campaign, Margesson said "these operations are a pre lude to greater struggles with our principal enemy." Since the withdrawal from Dunkerque last June, Margesson continued, the problem of equip ment has been eased and 'Tve are now able to form new divi sions." In addition "large rein forcements of equipment have been sent to the middle east" along with "material aid to our allies," he declared. Asserting that "the danger of invasion is a very real one," Margesson said the British "are endeavoring to improve our de fense from day to day." He also disclosed that the dls- oatches of General Lord Gbrt on the French campaign and the fi nal retreat from Dunkerque will soon be published. ' Lord Gort commanded the British expedi tionary force in France. . . ' Jury Finds Kirk Murder In Italy Asked Closure of Consulates WASHINGTON, March 8 UP) The United States has notified Italy that the movements of Ital ian consular officials throughout this country are to be restricted and has asked that Italian con sulates In Detroit and Newark, N. J., be closed. The state department made public today a note to the Italian government requesting that its consular officials confine their movements to those areas in which they exercise the recognis ed duties of their respective of fices. Follows Similar Act The Italian diplomatic staff in Washington was excluded from the request but the embassy was asked to keep the state depart ment currently informed "of the movements outside Washington of the military and naval per sonnel attached to the embassy. The action, believed to be the first of its kind in peace time against a country with which the United States maintains dip lomatic relations, followed a re quest from Italy for the closing of American consulates at Naples and Palermo and restrictions im posed in Italy on the movements of American diplomatic officials. Secretary of State Hull's note to the Italian ambassador refer red to the closing of the two American consulates but did not explain why the United States was asking the closing of the Italian consulates or restricting K (Continued on Page Two) I i-L'M a - mcsuen v amjraaiMl,.... They Must Not . Think Plots AMSTERDAM (Via Berlin). March 8 (P) The president of the German military court which has condemned 18 Netherlandera to death told the' Dutch, people today that everyone who, even in thought, plots against the Ger man army is playing with his life. He disclosed that sabotage ara awaiting German courtmartial proceedings. Most of those already sentenced to death were charged with spying for England and plotting to co operate with the British army in the event of an invasion. - The trial which resulted in the convictions Tuesday re vealed that a secret Dutch organ ization had been active from May until December, 1940, es pecially in the Dutch region nearest the English coast across the channel. German authorities, the court president asserted, regretted that several German soldiers had been pushed into the water and drowned or fallen victims of snipers is a result of the Dutch underground organization. - It Rained In Hgaa ' ag Gllmore Wilson didn't have, j,, s ssaMC. J " -. . . : 'W. f- :T.pfi rowboat to take this position atop a result ef floeda which followed Water was ''several" feet deep In in low area. May Get m . Luther Joe Kirk, found guilty of second degree murder is circuit court Thursday, leaves tha courtroom hand la hand with Us sister en his way back to the county Jail Just alter Circuit Judge David R. Vandsnbera read a verdict el guilty, atizk will be -sentenced'; Tuesday morning a spaadatorr sentence of liffj unsriaennianU ;. 4 -v - i i . '- - tL- Battlefields On Bulgarian Line Cleared , Br The Associated Press . With Britain pledged to the figh! at her side "until final vic tory is won," embattled Greece massed 90,000 troops in the mountain passes north of Salon ika today In readiness for the imminently expected assault of 130,000 Germans poised on the Greek-Bulgarian frontier. Observers in Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, said nazis might in vade the Aegean kingdom at any hour. Bombers Arrive Waves of German bombers were reported arriving from the north, reinforcing the n a z 1 fourth air fleet totaling 1700 bombers and fighters already based in Bulgaria. Sofia dispatches said German (Continued on Page Two) Los Angeles vt s"f jj to climb, only to step from a a Los Angeles street sign as a series of heavy rainstorms. this spot as It formed lake Guilty Of Second Degree Life Term r r.- -V mJSJ, AUTOS LOSTIfT PORTLAND FIRE Automobile Row Building Blaze 'Destroys 225 Cars; "Loss $400,000 PORTLAND, Ore., March 8 iff) A fire of undetermined origin early today destroyed the Burnett Automotive building in Portland's Bumside street auto mobile row with a loss estimated by Fire Investigator William Goers at 3400,000. . The blaze consumed 200 stored new automobiles, 25 used cars and wiped out business quarters of the Reo Sales company and 10 smaller companies occupying other parts of the building.. All available city firemen 'with 40 pieces of equipment battled the blaze for three hours, before it was . brought under control at 8 a. m. ' " ' ' - - i' . Son of Princess ; Denies He Must -Leave Country SAN FRANCISCO. March 8 (UP) Prince Franz Hohenlohe, 26-year-old son of Princess Ste fanie Hohenlohe, denied tonight he had been warned he, too, was subject to deportation as an un desirable alien, but confessed it is possible, "with aU this bad pub licity," the state department may refuse' to extend his visitor's vica.' .'' - ' - - - - - Prince Franz, tall and crop haired, dressed in cords and sweat-shirt, is correspondent for the Budapest Pester Lloyd. He came to America originally to study but said that was not his purpose for remaining in this country. , . , - ' ' "I don't face ouster -r- and I don't like that word ouster, either," he said. "No one has told me I have to go back to Hungary or anything of the sort. The authorities haven't demanded to know why. I didn't leave when my visitor's permit expired Janu ary 12. They simply called me in because I have applied for a renewal of my visa, and they had some routine questions to ask me." I. S. Wlxon, chief of the Immi gration service here,- confirmed Prince Franz' statements. "We haven't any Indication his ap plication is to be refused," be said. " ., : His future plans? - ' "Frankly, I've given up mak ing plans," he said. I rv-". v Jv - - LIFE TERM IN PENITENTIARY Defense Attorney Says In All Probability Kirk Will Request Appeal : Luther Joe Kirk sat stoically unmoved In Klamath circuit court Thursday afternoon at 3:08 and heard Judge David R. Van denberg read a verdict pro nouncing him guilty of second degree . murder for the fatal shooting of Leonard John In the early morning of November 19, 1940. ' The unanimous Jury verdict carries with it a mandatory Ufa Imprisonment sentence - which will be pronounced Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock. - . Jury Polled ' The 29-year-old Indian youth stared at the oak desk before him, his only motion that of blinking eyelids. Beside him sat his father, Clayton Kirk, promi nent Klamath Indian, and De fense Attorney J. C O'Neill. As soon as the verdict was mad known O'Neill requested a poU of the Jury. Each of the 12 men was asked if guilty was his ver dict. Each answered in the af firmative. ' '. Sentence Tuesday The jury was dismissed until 9 a. m. Friday. However, the at torney for the defense immedi ately asked for more time before sentence is pronounced, prefer ably some time toward the latter part .of next week. He said that bsj would be defense attorney in a trial beginning Friday, and reminded the court of another trial scheduled to start Monday. Circuit Judge Vandenberg then announced sentence of Kirk will be at 10 a. m. Tuesday. - The Kirk, trial marks the first murder case held in circuit court since. Vandenberg took the 'Judge's bench. It is the first mur der conviction to be brought in by a jury in several years. After the date for sentence was set, J. C O'Neill said that in all probability a motion for appeal of the case will be Mod. Throughout the entire trial the courtroom was filled with spectators. Jury Foreman Charles Balin presented the writ ten verdict to the court. The jurymen retired at 10:30 a. m. Thursday after receiving instructions from Circuit Judge David R. Vandenberg. Final ar guments of counsel were com pleted late. Wednesday. . Sculptor of Stone Faees at -Rushiriore Dies CHICAGO, March 8 WV-Gut- zon Borglum, 69, internationally famous sculptor, died today af ter a brief illness. Borglum succumbed at Hen- rotin hospital where, he had been since February 13. On March 3 Mrs. Borglum said her husband had been working too hard re cently and had entered the hos pital for a rest. ... . He had been reported as Im proving. ' . '..'. His wife and a son, Lincoln Borglum, and a daughter were at his bedside.- Borglum, whose best known work was the nearly completed Mount Rushmore memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota, was one artist whose work could be described as "colossal" with out fear of overstatement. Coun trysides were his studios, weather-beaten mountains his granite blocks, and dynamite and power driven hammers and chisels his tools of art.. ... The Mount Rushmore memor ial, hewn into the side of a moun tain, consisted of gigantic faces of Washington, Jefferson, Lin coln and Theodore Roosevelt, a monument dedicated to America as a pioneer nation. Borglum expected to complete the heads this year. " News Index City Briefs Psges 8-7 Comics and Story Page 18 Courthouse Records ..Psge 2 Editorials .Page 4 High School News ....Page 18 Information Page 8 Market, Financial .. Page . 8 Midland Empire pews... Page 10 Pattern Page Sports . Page 12-13 3'